Fiber-based optical low coherence tomography
US7177491B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 6, 2003 |
| Grant date | Feb 13, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 6, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01B2290/70
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Generally, and in one form of the present invention, is a polarization-maintaining fiber-based polarization sensitive optical low coherence reflectometer for depth resolved birefringence measurement. With the present invention, linear birefringence of a sample may be measured from data recorded in a single A-Scan. In addition, the present invention provides for the simultaneous measurement of retardation and orientation of birefringent axes, wherein measured retardation is insensitive to sample rotation in the plane perpendicular to ranging.
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